RIAS releases call for awards entries

November 21, 2016 11:00

Each year, the RIAS program awards the best reporting to highlight issues of interest to the U.S. and Germany. Stories of bi-national interest that aired or were published at any time in the calendar year of 2016 are eligible.

Awards are presented for radio, television and online reporting. There is no fee for submitting a story for a RIAS Award. Recent American winners include Erik Olsen and Melissa Eddy in 2016, for a pair of stories on nytimes.com: Germany’s Coal Addiction and Germany’s Energiewende: Off-shore Wind Push, Tonya Papanikolas in 2013 for her online reports from Germany and Susan Valot in 2012 for her radio work on LA artists living and working in Berlin.

The entry deadline is January 31, 2017. To submit, simply send a link to your story to jon@rtdna.org. Scripts and support materials are optional. The RIAS jury will meet in April and winners will be invited to the awards ceremony in Berlin to be held around Memorial Day.